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Tables of Contents for Best Plays of the Early American Theatre
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface: ``1714-1916''
ix
Introduction: Before O'Neill
xi
The Plays and Their Authors
xxviii
A Selective Bibliography
xlvii
The Contrast (1787)
1
37
Royall Tyler
Superstition (1824)
38
35
James N. Barker
Charles the Second (1824)
73
24
John Howard Payne
Washington Irving
Fashion (1845)
97
39
Anna Cora Mowatt
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
136
49
George L. Aiken
The Octoroon (1859)
185
31
Dion Boucicault
The Count of Monte Cristo (1883)
216
46
Charles Fechter
The Mouse-Trap (1889)
262
15
William Dean Howells
Secret Service (1896)
277
84
William Gillette
The Great Divide (1906)
361
37
William Vaughn Moody
The New York Idea (1906)
398
60
Langdon Mitchell
The Truth (1907)
458
53
Clyde Fitch
The Witching Hour (1907)
511
46
Augustus Thomas
Salvation Nell (1908)
557
60
Edward Sheldon
The Easiest Way (1909)
617
60
Eugene Walter
The Scarecrow (1911)
677
Percy MacKaye